"1566 Servers to Deliver Up To 25 TeraFlops per Second for Less Than $6 Million
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- COLSA Corporation today
announced the purchase of 1566 dual processor 1U rack-mount 64-bit Xserve G5
servers from Apple to build a new supercomputer expected to be one of the
fastest in the world. The supercomputer, named MACH 5, is a breakthrough in
price performance for high performance computing. It is expected to deliver a
peak performance capability of more than 25 TFlops/second at a cost of
$5.8 million and will be used to model the complex aero-thermodynamics of
hypersonic flight for the US Army."
-- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/
"Aerospace is plumbing with the volume turned up." - John Carmack
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